Synonyms of the word

indigence

• n. extreme poverty or destitution.

impoverishment

• n. The action of impoverishing someone.
• n. The state of being impoverished.

need

• n. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
• n. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
• v. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
• v. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
• v. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
• v. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

pauperism

• n. The state of being a pauper; poverty.

pauperization

• n. The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

penury

• n. extreme want; poverty; destitution.
• n. a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency.

poorness

• n. The quality of being poor.
• n. poverty.

poverty

• n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
• n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness.